Welcome to our gaming guide for SILENT HILL 2: Lost Memories. In this article, we will be discussing the Strange Photographs found in the SH2 Remake and providing our inspection and thoughts on them. Get ready to delve into the mysterious world of Silent Hill and uncover the secrets hidden within these photographs.
Preface and Disclaimer
2 – This guide isn’t meant to help you find the pictures. I did add the location of the pictures but I don’t go into great lenght. If you want a guide to help you find the pictures, please looks for another guide instead.
3 – I am a lifelong fan of Silent Hill. I’ve been around since 1999. I’ve read and watched countless of lore videos on the series. I’ve had many years to think about the story and its theories. Therefore, this guide may contain far-out theories. The photographs are new thing in the remake, which adds new layers of theories, so my initial impression might be wrong. You’re free to debate in the comments below.
4 – Some of the content of the pictures mentioned in this guide are inconclusive, as in, I don’t understand what’s on the picture. If anyone has more info, I will gladly add it to the guide if it makes sense.
List of Pictures
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
20 – MADE IT!
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
09 – HER DRAWINGS
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
10 – THEY’RE HERE
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
23 – OLD MAN’S ALWAYS PREPARED
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
24 – ROAD TRIP!
21 – AFTERMATH…
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE
Location: Found just outside Woodside appartment, on the floor near some garbage bin and debris. This picture’s location is interesting as it could be easily missed if not for HUD prompts or James turning his head. It meshes well with the other stuff. Another interesting point is that most of the other pictures have specific placement that are more easy to see or find. Why does it feel like this one was discarded?
Description: Shows rows of open windows of Woodside appartment’s front during daytime. We can see some open windows but it’s dark and we can’t see anything inside.
Thoughts: There’s an exclamation point in the photo’s menu description but it’s not written on the photo itself. The photo’s number is #1, and is likely to be the first picture we find. It may highlight the photographer’s voyeuristic side and maybe his desire to keep an eye on people like a menagerie.
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
Location: Found in the display window of “Silent Hill Fresh Meat” butcherie, just southwest of Neely’s Bar.
Description: Shows the inside of appartment 201’s living room. The window, door, couch, clock, painting and tv set appears to match. The picture is rather blurry and has 4 white spots, like the photo was developped on a damaged film or something burned the developped picture like a cigarette. It’s the only picture that has this feature.
Thoughts: Room 201 is very important to the story. The very first room you come across in this appartment is where James murdered Mary and also where they share one last touching moment together at the end of the game. Down the corridor leading to the bathroom, there’s a small table with a flower pot, which is in next picture, Valentine’s Day. In the bathroom, there’s 2 lipsticks on the tablet which could be the same as the picture “Best Flavor”. There’s also 2 birds painting on the wall, foreshadowing a later puzzle. Further in the living room is where you find the Handkerchief and face off Pyramid Head in a cutscene. Then in the kitchen, you have this red backdoor with this weird diagonal window which gives me OCD just by looking it. This door just so happens to be the first entry point in the Otherside. Note that when you enter this door, you enter a near-perfect mirror of Room 201, like it was reversed. That room’s number is 208, same as picture “Forever Together”. It’s also the same number on the door you find Maria dead in the Labyrinth (even the OG version has this).
This room is also revisited later in the game during the Labyrinth nightmare sequence called “Ruined Area”. You have to cross the room 3 times, each time with a somewhat different layout. This sequence ends with Pyramid Head chasing James in a narrow corridor with the weird “flesh-leg wall”.
Finally, the location of this picture and its caption is interesting. He was happy and he wants “fresh meat”. It could have been placed say, at the Flower Shop which could have symbolized his love and loyalty. Instead it’s placed in this rather grim shop whose name implies a certain lack of attachment to any new women. Another night, Another Warm Body™, another Aftermath™…
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
Location: Room 102 of Woodside appartment, on a coffee table in the living room.
Description: Shows a flower pot and its shadow cast behind on a wall. Highly likely to be the same flower pot from Room 201 next to the bathroom.
Thoughts: Inside Woodside appartment room 106, you find a note about room 102’s tenant which reads:
“Please deliver these to Mrs. Milley from 102. I’m really worried about her. She’s been cooped up all alone with his belongings for days on end. She won’t even move them, and God forbid anyone else touch anything. It’s breaking my heart just thinking about it.”
This note seems to imply the woman is greiving over the loss of her husband and can’t seem to let go of the past, which parallel’s James’ struggle. In our modern time, Febuary 14 is a celebration of love but it’s origin is based a on prisoner’s story…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentine%27s_Day
Unrelated bonus: The kitchen and living room of appartment 102 is a replica of Room 302, the cursed appartment from Silent Hill 4: The Room. However, bedroom, bathroom and the pantry do not match.
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
Location: Woodside appartment, Room 210, in the corner of the living room, on a windowsill.
Description: Shows 3 desk drawers, a trash bin and 4 crumbled pieces of paper on the ground. The top drawer seems open and there’s more crumbled paper in the trash bin.
Thoughts: The picture evokes the growing pains of being a writer, trying over and over to get his story straight. “Getting their stories straight” is a common phrase used by criminals to fabricate lies and grandiose stories… Then you have this funny typo. On the picture, the word “beginning” is written as “begining”, however the ingame menu description uses the correct word…
Writer’s Block is a common term for authors who cannot seem to find inspiration for the next part of their stories, or even start a new one at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_block
Lastly, in the appartment you find this picture, there are 3 human-shaped silhouttes on the walls.
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
Location: Otherside Blue Creek appartment staircase.
Description: Shows a door with the number 208 on it.
Thoughts: As mentioned above in “06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY”, this door number is seen twice. Once when entering the Otherside Blue Creek through the red door and when entering Maria’s room in the Labyrinth.
I find the caption of this picture interesting. Usually, the saying goes “together forever” but it’s been inverted here. Room 208 is an inverted mirror appartment of Room 201…
Unrelated bonus: This staircase is very similar to the one in the original SH2 where you fight Pyramid Head for the first time. When he’s defeated, approaching the stairs will pin the camera in a specific position. Inspecting the corpse in the remake will show this exact camera angle.
11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES
Location: Bedroom of Room 212, Otherside Blue Creek appartment, after grabing the 3rd clock hand.
Description: The content of this picture is inconclusive to me. There seems to be a wooden wall with small square windows in the back. The thing on the right kinda looks like a TV or a radio, but I can’t say for certain. I haven’t found this place in-game.
Thoughts: The location of this picture and its caption do match. Room 212 is where the clock puzzle is. The bedroom in which you find this picture is only opened once the 3rd clock hand is found.
Again, some interesting wording in the caption. Usually, the saying goes “how time flies” but here, a “the” has been place before time. It kinda annoyed me when I first read it, but after finding all the pictures, I understood that bad grammar and/or syntax is a recurring theme…
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
Location: Rosewater Park, atfer the first meeting with Maria. Can be missed easily if park is not thoroughly inspected.
Description: A table, a chair and a wall. There seems to be a handprint on the dusty table, however, on closer inspection, these don’t look like traces of fingers. Maybe utensils?
Thoughts: Photo looks like a typical art gallery display. Mundane imagery with very little detail. Are we supposed to think about what’s missing? A person sitting there? A diner in a plate? Utensils around the plate? What?
The caption can be a bit profound with context applied to it. However, where is James’ home? James does not mention wanting to go back there or anywhere else. Maybe it relates to the good times he had with Mary, now a distant thing behind him, feeling empty inside like the content of the picture.
20 – MADE IT!
Location: Inside the garage near Rosewater Park’s parking area.
Description: The content of this picture is inconclusive to me. A door? A window?
Thoughts: I don’t understand what I’m looking it. Made it? Made it where and why the exclamation point like it was hard getting there?
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
Location: In the dressing room of Heaven’s Night.
Description: Appears to show the main stage of Heaven’s Night.
Thoughts: When I first played the game, I thought the pictures we found were all from different people. I was under the impression that this was taken by Maria herself. The saying “ready to kill it” is often used by any live performers. Not just strippers but theatrical actors too… So maybe after all, it wasn’t Maria’s picture. It may be James drilling his subconcious to act out the lie he fabricated.
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
Location: In the Moonlight Grove garden. Can be missed easily if you follow Maria right away without exploring.
Description: Shows a cloudy picture with 7 birds silhouettes. At first glance, the round shape in the back looks like a cart wheel but it’s actually a circular stained glass windows of a church. There seems to be an odd graffiti/scribble in the top right of the picture.
Thoughts: This picture and the location it’s found evokes ideas of mariage and commitement. Maria’s story about the statue of that woman. Red flowers everywhere symbolizing love and passion.
There are 2 churches mentioned in the game. One tourist ad in a shop’s display talk about the Balkan church, located in Old Silent Hill (SH1). A note inside the Hotel talks of a church at the corner of Nathan Avenue and Neely Street called St. Stella church. The stained glass window design seem to match the Balkan Church.
After the Hospital, we go through Dark Silent Hill to reach Rosewater Park. Instead of going west of the Woodside appartment like in the original, we go north instead, which just so happens to be the Nathan/Neely intersection. When you enter the area where the Wrench is used, a faint gasp can be heard like in many important areas in the game. Just like in the bedroom of appartment 201, which is a very important appartment…
In Room 213 of Woodside appartment, there’s a painting of a church that looks like Balkan church. After finding the Handgun, a corpse will appear in a sofa sitting in front of a TV displaying static. Like in the orginal SH2, this is a kind of foreshadowing the end of the game where James watches the cassette and dies inside. It’s funny they covered the corpse with a blanket in the remake. In the original, the corpse wasn’t covered but couldn’t be put in view of the camera. Using camhacks, people found out the corpse was James’ body. It’s kind of a stretch, but the close proximity of the painting next to the corpse and the TV made me connect these dots, but this one is far-fetched.
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
Location: Inside the Reverie Theatre, right after the Eddie cutscene.
Description: Shows 2 lipsticks, one pinkish-red and the other purple.
Thoughts: As mentioned in “06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY”, these 2 lipstick may be the ones you find in Room 201’s bathroom.
Probably the most odd picture we find, at least to me. Right before we can pick this picture up, we encounter Eddie for the 2nd time at the Reverie Theatre. During this cutscene, we see Eddie slurping melted strawberry ice cream off of his fingers, which is the most eerie and gross moment of the game. Then, when I picked up the picture, I associated the pinkish lipstick with Eddie’s finger in my mind and it made me nauseous. The picture’s caption drove in that gross idea further. James kissing the woman he loves and Eddie slurping that melted ice cream. Why did I have to connect these dots like that, I do not know. Why the hell is this picture there anyways. Why do I feel like this was done on purpose?
09 – HER DRAWINGS
Location: Brookhaven Hospital, Observation Room on the 2nd floor.
Description: Shows a wall with what appears to be gunshot holes. The top right seems to be the drawing but it isn’t the main focus of the picture, unlike its caption.
Thoughts: Who draws picture in Silent Hill 2? Laura. Why is the picture centered on the bullet holes in the wall? It’s a really cryptic picture… There’s not much else to say here…
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
Location: Brookhaven Hospital, Examination Room 1 on the 1st floor.
Description: Seems to show a matress with bloodstains on it.
Thoughts: I can picture James in the past walking in the hospital where Mary was being treated. Upon arriving at her usual spot, he finds out she was moved to a different wing. If this picture is supposed to imply anything else, I can’t see it.
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
Location: Otherside Brookhaven Hospital, Room C5 on the 2nd floor. This is where Maria was taking a nap earlier.
Description: The content of this picture is inconclusive to me. My guess here is that this is the corner of a ceiling with peeled-off paint due to extreme decay. The upper-middle part could be curtain rods?
Thoughts: If no one knows, then it’s a secret.
Because the picture is weird, it’s hard for me to connect any dots.
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
Location: Otherside Brookhaven Hostipal, at the Pool.
Description: The content of this picture is inconclusive to me. Like the previous picture, this seems to show the ceiling of a room covered in sheets. The orientation of the folds seems to point out we are indeed watching a ceiling. There seems to be 3 big spots, which looks like bloodstains.
Thoughts: If no one knows, then it’s a secret. If they mustn’t know, then it needs to stay a secret. They shouldn’t even know a secret exist in the first place.
I thought it was a picture of a bedside at first, because my mind somewhat forced that shape at quick glance. This picture evokes James’ guilt slowly bubbling out.
10 – THEY’RE HERE
Location: Otherside South Vale, in a car in front of the Lucky Jade restaurant.
Description: Shows rows of open windows of Woodside appartment’s front during night. Some windows have light coming from them, but we don’t see anyone.
Thoughts: This is just like very first picture we find, “01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE”… Now that “they’re here”, now what? Did the photographer stand there all day? It drives in the obsessed voyeur idea further.
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
Location: Silent Hill Historical Society, inside a display cabinet.
Description: This picture is rather inconclusive, but if we trust the caption, it appears to show a close shot of a grandfather clock.
Thoughts: All the clocks in Silent Hill are stopped at exactly 9:10:15. It’s the solution to the clock puzzle in the Otherside Blue Creek appartment. From my point of view, there are 2 theories as to why this time is important. First would be that this is the time when Mary died. Second would be that this is the time when… James died. Dead as in, dead since the start of the game.
Remember that far-fetched theory I mentioned in the “05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE”? The way the corpse and TV is found right after finding the Handgun ties into this dark theory. The theory that James shot himself in the head before the game started while watching that fateful videotape one last time…
If you can’t turn back time, if you can’t reset the clock, then getting a new one seems like abstract wishful thinking and denial.
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
Location: Toluca Prison, Serpent Section, inside cell E13 after the electric chair puzzle.
Description: Shows what appears to be an hospital bed.
Thoughts: From my point of view, there’s a simple explanation and there’s a another dark theory.
For the simple explanation, the location and the picture seems to imply James felt trapped by his relationship as Mary became terminally ill. Slowly counting each days until he’d regain his freedom. James’ confession to Mary at the end of the game further cements this.
The dark theory is that James may have been a patient at Brookhaven Hospital… The diary we find on the roof may have been written by James himself. It’s kinda curious we get a visit from Pyramid Head right after reading it… Then you have the director’s 3 “hopeless cases” which oddly parallels the 3 lost souls we see in the game: Eddie, Angela and James. The 3 files you find on these patients seem to describe each character well. Eddie could be #50, Angela could be #130 and James could be #90.
After completing the Bracelet puzzle, you gain access to the director’s back office. If you look on the wall, you’ll see a board with information on his 3 patients. One patient receive electroshock therapy, another received trans-orbital lobotomy and the last was given heavy medication. Later in the Otherside Hospital, we must solve 3 puzzles to open a box. One requires electricity to receive a code, another requires a forceful lobotomy of a wooden dummy and the last is a schizotic code deducing gimmick which requires you to read a note, count pills in a sink, check a clock through a hole and count the amount of time the light blinks…
Then you have an even crazier theory that Eddie and Angela are figment of James’ subconscious. If this is true, then does that mean James was subjected to all of the treatment above? Boy, that’s just crazy.
23 – OLD MAN’S ALWAYS PREPARED
Location: Toluca Prison, Boar Section, on a desk inside the Warehouse.
Description: Shows footprints in either snow or mud. Because of the color of the picture, my first impression was snow.
Thoughts: This picture is kinda cryptic to be honest. Calling someone “old man” is usually directed at a father figure. Otherwise it could be an offensive term if used in a different context. What was this old man prepared for? Why the footprints in the snow?
In Silent Hill 4, James’ father just so happens to be the appartment complex’s superintendent and comes knocking on Henry’s door a couple of times.
So yeah, my thoughts on this picture are inconclusive. Too vague and cryptic. I don’t know what else to think.
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
Location: Labyrinth, Desolate Area, up a ladder in the circular room where you encounter Pyramid Head.
Description: Pitch black picture with scratches. Highly likely to be a blank polaroid film.
Thoughts: If you have no plans and that the future’s not written, then indeed, you have the whole world ahead of you. Endless possiblities. I thought it was a little wholesome and hopeful at first glance, but then I remembered where I was when I found this picture. Then my perception of it shifted to a dark lonely abyss. An empty world devoid of light and love. This picture then felt like a sarcastic expression of despair.
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
Location: Labyrinth, inside the Rotating Cube, after finishing Desolate Area.
Description: Appears to be a darkly lit doorway.
Thoughts: There’s not much to say here. It’s another one of those cryptic picture that can’t be fully explained. “Hello darkness my old friend”? Is that supposed to be it, just a reference to that Simon and Garfunkel song “The Sound of Silence”?
24 – ROAD TRIP!
Location: At the Boat Launch docks, behind the Historical Society.
Description: Shows a foggy lake with a light above.
Thoughts: Well, that one is easy, you see this picture 5 seconds after picking it up. There’s nowhere else to go but the boat, so you board it and you follow the light, just like Maria’s story at the park and the one you read at the Historical Society.
There’s just one problem here. A roadtrip is usually a long journey with an automobile vehicle. There’s “road” in the word and roads are on land, not water… Rowing a boat for 5 minutes isn’t exactly a long journey.
The only thing that makes sense with this word is that James came to Silent Hill by car. Like I ask in “14 – SO FAR FROM HOME”, where is James’ home? If we combine these 2 picture, we can guesstimate that he droves hundreds of miles.
Another interesting detail about the “Lady of the Light” legend. Maria tells James that the man drowned in a storm because the winds blew the candle away and he couldn’t find his way. The story in the Historical Society is different. It says the moon shined so bright that it created illusions of candles which confused the man, who eventually died of exhaustion. It also says that the man refused to believe she was witch…
21 – AFTERMATH…
Location: Lakeside Hotel, room 104.
Description: Shows what appears to be a picture torn apart in pieces.
Thoughts: The location you find this picture and the picture itself seems to match. An hotel room with a messy bed, filled with empty booze bottle and cigarette butts. Saying a one-night stand happened here is an easy guess. Perhaps James indulged in some cheap sex but they were forgetable experiences as the picture seems to symbolize.
You take a picture to preserve a memory. If you rip the picture apart, there’s no value in that memory. You just want to forget it. So this picture of a torn picture is ironic and paradoxical: you want to remember to forget, but watching the torn picture inside the picture makes you remember what you wanted to forget…
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
Location: Lakeside Hotel, Venus Tears bar.
Description: Shows a white flower, which might be White Claudia.
Thoughts: At this point in the game, James is very close to playing that videotape. The picture’s caption felt like one of those “last warning” before imminent disaster. This is, after all, the last picture we find in the normal Hotel and before watching the videotape.
I can’t think of much to say about the flower, which may be the mythical White Claudia flower, which was a part of SH1’s story. I don’t want to delve too deep in that subject because it isn’t related to SH2’s story. If it’s not White Claudia, then it’s just a white flower and there’s not much else to say. If it is, then there’s a possibility that the Health Drink and Syringe James has been using all along were laced with PTV…
https://silenthill.fandom.com/wiki/White_Claudia
Lastly, there’s something odd about this picture. I don’t know if it’s a bug, an oversight or if it’s intentional. When you open your item menu and check your items, the newest item is always on the left and the oldest on the right, correct? Check this out.
Even if you find the 2 remaining pictures, BETTER LEAVE will be the the “newest” item, placed completely to the left. This is odd because the order in which you find the last batch of pictures is definite. You can’t pick up STILL CAN’T GET RIGHT and SHAPE FORCES THE MIND before BETTER LEAVE, it’s just not possible.
If it’s a bug or an oversight, thanks for the free OCD badtrip. If it’s intentional, what is this selective ordering supposed to mean?
Unrelated bonus: Amusing fact about this bar is the lit shelves behind the counter where you get the picture. This could be a reference to The Shining which had a similar design. I’ve also seen somewhere on the internet that the Check-In office is very similar to the one in The Shining.
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
Location: Otherside Lakeview Hotel, inside the bathroom of room 302. Requires moving a cart to open the door.
Description: Show a picture with inverted colors. It’s hard to see at first glance, but if you edit the photo, it actually shows the inside of the bathroom at the start of the game, as seen through the mirror James was staring himself in.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3353352582
Thoughts: That’s a very interesting cascade of dots to connect.
We find this picture after watching the videotape, the grand revelation and monumental failure.
The picture is in a bathroom at the end of the game, in the Otherside, an evil “inverted mirrored” reality.
The picture shows an “inverted mirrored” view of the starting bathroom with inverted colors.
It’s like a cognitive feedback loop, a manifestion of denial, expressing desire to restart and get the story straight as the caption implies. “Still can’t get it right” means trying once or many times did not work.
Could it be that James is suffering from a type of amnesia where his memory resets after a certain amount of time and that the way he remembers things is getting more messed up which each resets? Look at the photo numbers and order in which we find them. The name of the achievement for finding all photo is called “Pieces Unarranged”.
Unrelated bonus: This memory loss theory along with the pictures might actually be an homage to a movie called “Memento”. If this is true, then “I got it all backwards”. hehehe… I’ll make a section down below talking about the movie a little bit more.
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
Location: At the end of the game, before the final boss.
Description: The picture is completely red. Reminescent of the Red Save Squares found throughout the game.
Thoughts: As discussed in “21 – AFTERMATH…”, you take a picture to preserve a memory.
Throughout the game, saving the game will show James starring at us, like it was a mirror. Saving the game is keeping a record of everything that happened.
At the final save, which has 9 red squares, James will look away in shame, like he can’t stare at himself (or us) for what he’s done. Then he faces off the Pyramid Head duo, which is a physical manifestation of his Guilt tormenting him.
This picture is found after James leaves his guilt behind. If the picture is supposed to symbolize the entire game’s knowledge and James’ “newfound understanding”, then the act of James picking up this picture is him accepting the harsh truth and his willingness to move on.
“Shape forces the mind”… If you swap the word “shape” and “mind”, it becomes “mind forces the shape”, which makes more sense. As discussed in “07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS” and “11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES”, the grammar/syntax of these photo’s captions are messy. So, James accepts the truth but his perception of the whole thing may still be warped and messy, like the photo’s numbers, the order you find them and the cryptic content you find in some of them. “Mind forcing a shape” may be synonimous with “creating a lie/creating an illusion”…
“They… She will not be cured. All that suffering… I am no longer sure if it was of any use. If it meant anything at all. I can’t say if this newfound understanding… If there’s any wisdom to be had in all that happened. I suppose that’s for you to learn. And I hope you will.”
List of pictures in Order Part 1
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133701
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133951
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134136
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133748
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133885
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133727
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133776
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133901
09 – HER DRAWINGS
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133915
10 – THEY’RE HERE
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134004
List of pictures in Order Part 2
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133815
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133862
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133975
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133830
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134047
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133797
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134026
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133935
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134118
20 – MADE IT!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355133844
List of pictures in Order Part 3
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134189
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134220
23 – OLD MAN’S ALWAYS PREPARED
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134094
24 – ROAD TRIP!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134157
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134208
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3355134242
Rabbit Hole
Let’s look at the list again, in the order we find them.
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
20 – MADE IT!
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
09 – HER DRAWINGS
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
10 – THEY’RE HERE
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
23 – OLD MAN’S ALWAYS PREPARED
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
24 – ROAD TRIP!
21 – AFTERMATH…
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
If you take the first and last caption, and keep on descending/ascending:
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
21 – AFTERMATH…
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
24 – ROAD TRIP!
11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
20 – MADE IT!
23 – OLD MAN’S ALWAYS PREPARED
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
10 – THEY’RE HERE
09 – HER DRAWINGS
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
Some of these caption combos are kinda curious, no? I’ve tried doing this with the list rearranged by the photo numbers but they don’t quite match…
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In the order we find them:
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
09 – HER DRAWINGS
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
23 – OLD MAN’S ALWAYS PREPARED
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
21 – AFTERMATH…
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
In the order of the picture’s numbers:
01 – SO MANY PEOPLE HERE!
03 – YOUR BEST BUDDY!
05 – CHURCH ENTRANCE
07 – CAREER’S HUMBLE BEGININGS
09 – HER DRAWINGS
11 – HOW THE TIME FLIES
13 – THEY MUSTN’T KNOW
15 – FOUR MONTHS TO GO
17 – THE NEW CLOCK
19 – WHOLE WORLD AHEAD OF US
21 – AFTERMATH…
25 – BETTER LEAVE…
In the order we find them:
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
20 – MADE IT!
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
10 – THEY’RE HERE
24 – ROAD TRIP!
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
In the order of the picture’s numbers:
02 – NO ONE KNOWS
04 – VALENTINE’S DAY
06 – I’VE BEEN HAPPY
08 – BEST FLAVOR!
10 – THEY’RE HERE
12 – READY TO KILL IT!
14 – SO FAR FROM HOME
16 – FOREVER TOGETHER
18 – AT LEAST SHE WAS THERE
20 – MADE IT!
22 – STILL CAN’T GET IT RIGHT
24 – ROAD TRIP!
26 – SHAPE FORCES THE MIND
Memento
If you haven’t watched this movie, please do yourself a favor and get to it. It is one of the movies of all time. Spoilers ahead.
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Memento is a Christopher Nolan movie from the year 2000. It’s a psychological thriller about a man who’s suffering from an aggravating case of amnesia. When he goes to sleep, he forgets everything that happened in the previous day, so he keeps these cryptic notes, tattoos and pictures to remind himself of what’s the current thing.
The movies follows him trying to find the person who murdered his wife. One night, an home invader got inside their home, murdered his wife and bonked him on the head, which is what gave him his amnesia.
When you first watch this movie, it’s really confusing, but as you get near the end, the puzzle pieces fall into place, yet it still leaves you with many questions.
I thought the Strange Photographs and James’ apparent amnesia were an homage to this movie.
Conclusion
In the end, we can say with certainty that the pictures are related to James and his psyche. Yet, I’m still confused about some of these and their implications.
Like mentioned in the beginning, I’m open to suggestion and correction.
And that wraps up our share on SILENT HILL 2: Lost Memories: Strange Photograph Investigation. If you have any additional insights or tips to contribute, don’t hesitate to drop a comment below. For a more in-depth read, you can refer to the original article here by Vagrant, who deserves all the credit. Happy gaming!